In a stark contrast of outcomes, two men who attempted to fly hundreds of miles on lawn chairs tied to helium balloons have landed. An Oregon man, Kent Couch, 48, successfully flew from his home more than 200 miles into Idaho Saturday, landing safely in a field and welcomed by excited towns people.

On July 5, the first special flight that will allow passengers to fly in their birthday suit, naked that is, will take off from Erfurt in Southeast Germany to its destination in the island of Usedom off Baltic Sea. "All the passengers will fly naked, but they are only allowed to undress once they are in the plane. But then they will be able to enjoy the hour-long flight in the way God intended," Enrico Hess, the founder of the travel company OssiUrlaub, has been quoted as saying.

Singapore Airlines is not allowing romantic passengers aboard its new Airbus A380 Superjumbo jets to use the beds in the private suites of the world's biggest commercial plane for sex. Australian newspaper Mercury quoted a spokesman of the airlines as saying that the ban on airborne sex is among the rules for passenger behavior during flights of the A380.

Flights of thousands of LaGuardia Airport passengers were delayed after tomato juice spilled over an X-ray machine causing it to malfunction. Passengers were brought to a near-standstill in security lines for hours.

Frustrated with numerous and repeated technical problems that had grounded its entire international route fleet of two Boeing 757s, officials for Nepal's state-owned airline committed the ritual killing of two goats. Nepal Airline officials hoped that the sacrifice would appease the Hindu Sky God, Akash Bhairab. Ritual animal sacrifice is a common and accepted practice in the Hindu religion.